But I think erasing the LibreOffice branding instead of keeping it and adding “Collabora” next to it will not help adoption from simple users like me, and will maintain confusion for us in the ever confusing FOSS Office software world. I think it is fair to make the name “Collabora” famous if it is true that you did the work you claim. I just think “Oh no, I won’t go for yet another new/different stuff let me find the LibreOffice solution.” Here, seeing this new (new to me: mere user who doesn’t keep up with cutting edge developments but who just want to work) name only triggers my defiance. Should you have kept the branding “LibreOffice”, with something like “LibreOffice – powered by Collabora”, or “LibreOffice – sent to the clouds by Collabora”, or whatever catch phrase making clear Collabora had done the work but keeping the “LibreOffice” main name, it would have been an instant adoption and, sort of, recognition from me. But right now and maybe wrongly, I feel a great waste of time and energy, both at Collabora and for me to try to understand and keep up.
I am conscious that, sometimes, painful moves at one point will make things better over the next couple of decades. I cannot claim that my “mere user’s perspective” should prevail, I don’t even claim it is most users’ perspective. Now I find myself spending hours reading FAQs, blogs, Wikipedia articles and GitHub issues, all filled with polite language trying to tell facts without triggering less civil disputes, just because I am trying to understand what the hell is this yet other Collabora solution, where it comes from, where it stands with respect to LibreOffice, whether I should opt for it or not, whether I already use it without knowing etc. For whatever good or bad reasons, that name was more and more standing out in the mainstream non-technician world. I think we are a bunch of people looking for the big player on which we can rely on in the FOSS world.
Then more recently it hasn’t got simpler when OnlyOffice came out. It was already quite some trouble some time ago for a newbie like me to navigate and try to understand the differences between StarOffice, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, KOffice and WhateverOffice. WIth this in mind, I am kind of looking for the major FOSS alternative that has some chance to challenge Microsoft Office in terms of features, stability and reproducibility of the output when opening a given file with either solution. I am a simple user, with no coding skills, just willing to escape major companies’ greed and opacity, but trying to remain as interoperable as possible with their customers (both for obvious productivity reasons and to have some hope that they will be convinced that FOSS is better and switch). While I understand the motivation behind the branding moves and changes, I find all this very confusing. The source will still be mirrored at LibreOffice cgit.More on this and other reasons in the FAQ.To ensure future investment Collabora moved the development to GitHub in 2020.This InfoGraph shows Collabora’s contributions to the development.
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